Crop marks on PDF

[Carol J. Elkins]

Thanks, Harro. I'm using Acrobat XI, which is TOTALLY different than 
Acrobat X. However, I did locate the Set Page Boxes tool in Acrobat 
XI. I had to define a new custom Tool Set to get access to the tools 
in the Print Production Toolset; I could NOT figure out how to 
display the already defined tool set. Thanks, Acrobat, for making a 
simple task so very much harder.

Setting the page size to 8.5 x 11 did nothing in my Acrobat 
application. That was my problem. However, Rick Quatro tested this on 
his system and it worked fine. (Thanks, Rick!) So I went back into 
the Framemaker 11 file to see if I could fix something there. My 
mistake was trying to control page size in the Job Options. That DOES 
work if all you want is a correctly sized PDF file. But you can't set 
crop marks on it or resize its page size. Here is what finally worked:

1) In Framemaker, select Print Setup. You MUST define a PDF paper 
size here that matches the paper size that you defined in Framemaker. 
(For me, this was 4x5.7.) You do this in two places in the Print 
Setup dialog box:

a) Select Name-Adobe PDF and click Properties. Click the dropdown 
arrow next to PDF Page Size. If the desired page size isn't in this 
list, you must add a new custom page size. Click Add and define the 
new page size. Return to the Print Setup window.

b) In the Print Setup window, click the dropdown arrow in the 
Paper|Size area. Select the paper size you defined in Step a.

2) Print to PDF. The result will be a correctly sized PDF file.

3) To add crop marks, in Acrobat, figure out how to get the Print 
Production Toolset visible. This will be easy in Acrobat X and very 
difficult in Acrobat XI. From the Print Production Toolset,

a) Select the Set Page Boxes tool. Define an 8.5 x 11 page size and 
apply to ALL pages.

b) Select the Add Printer Marks tool. Select which marks you want to 
apply, and apply to ALL pages.

I hope this helps someone else out. It is virtually impossible to 
find this written anywhere in Acrobat's  Help system for Acrobat XI 
or for Framemaker 11.

Carol

Carol

At 01:09 AM 6/20/2013, Harro de Jong wrote:
>Carol J. Elkins wrote:
>
>
> > HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim
> > marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get
> > Acrobat set up to do this correctly.  I've located the Add Printer
> > Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed
> > page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim
> > marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file;
> > that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the
> > PDF output's page size.
>
>In Acrobat X, the tool you're looking for is in
>Tools> Print Production>Set page boxes
>Despite the name, this dialog also allows you to change the page size.
>Make sure to apply the new page size to all pages and not just the 
>current one.
>Then you can add the registration marks.
>
>Harro de Jong
>Triview